PROBLEMS 275

107. FURTHER MATHEMATICAL QUESTION
Harl. MS. 4254, fol. 5.

In Pegu he [Christopher Hatton] was asked this
Question or one of this nature. Suppose there be a
Pole i o yards high, and a rat placed at the top of it
descending f of a foot in f- of an houre, and a Cat
at the bottom which ascends f of a foot in -f- of an
houre, Question, how long they will be in meeting
and in what place of the Pole they will meete.

108. HINDOOS WORLD AGE
Harl. MS. 4254, fol. 5a.

In their Almanack3 which is written in a Language
called Sinscreet, they say the world is 3892771 yeares
old to the yeare 1670.

109. SNICRAN [VIKRAMA], SAMBUT [SAMBAT]
ACCOUNTS
Harl. MS. 4254, fol. 32.
The Hindoos say That their old Account was called
the Snicran Account, in which were 365^ dayes in
every yeare, and that yeare begins when ours doth
(vizt.} upon new years day. There was a Rojah
coalled [sic, called] Bear becramogee which lived
1728 yeares since, and then altered the former Account
of the yeare and placed in it 360 days, And called it
Sumbut, being of his owne calculateing.